To gain control of the Mississippi River and defeat the Confederacy
To blockade the Southern ports.
The Anaconda Plan was the Union army's strategic goal in the summer of 1861.
The objective was Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi.
To starve the South, before attacking its weakened forces.
They are the same thing. The press drew a cartoon of an anaconda, to indicate slow strangulation, and the Union's original war-plan was then nicknamed the Anaconda Plan (or the Anaconda).
the anaconda plan happen in the 1890's.
the Anaconda Plan.
Even today, the importance of the Anaconda Plan is a matter of debate.
The North used a strategy called the "Anaconda Plan". The plan was to set up a naval blockade along the eastern coast. The goal was to to block imports to the South and to strangle the South's economy. Hence, the name anaconda.
The Anaconda Plan called for the blockade of all southern seaports and the control of the Mississippi.
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